Tag: book

  • Science is not in opposition to ignorance

    Only by a certain orientation upon knowledge does oppositional categories have significant affect. I was reading a paper, part of the paper anyways, where the author talks about John Locke saying his work not involved with science. Just got me thinking. Georg Hegel, and many more philosophers for sure we’re trying to find some sort…

  • The Object of the Subject

    “The Philosophical Hack uses Slavoj Zizek’s book ‘Event’ as a platform from which to hack into philosophy. A hack is someone who is adept in technology and standard methods but is not employed to make marketed products. Yet in another sense, a hack is a repeated application of a specific yet broad algorithmic protocol upon…

  • Psychology and Ideology

    From “Mental Automatisms“. commentaries and translation of the work of Gaetan Gatian de Clerambault. by Paul Hriso, M.D. Used without permission. * There is ample evidence that shows that medication for mental illness is not as much based in science as it is in an ideology that medicine might have a beneficial effect upon mental…

  • Review: We Were Eight Years in Power

    We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates My rating: 4 of 5 stars Racism was not a singular one-dimensional vector but a … Review: We Were Eight Years in Power

  • Read: The Philosophical Hack

    Oh Kaay! I finally took a minute and got some things in order. THE OBJECT OF THE SUBJECT : The Second Part of the Philosophical Hack  is available in EPUB HERE.                   and in paperback HERE. THE PHILOSOPHICAL HACK: The First Part is available HERE in paper back. “The Philosophical…

  • The Third Part of the philosophical hack is Delayed due to user error.

    Oh no! My MacBook Pro crashed finally after 10 years. And, because I really do despise computers and iPhones and the Internet and everything that has to do with modern technology 😄 I don’t automatically save my stuff to the cloud. Rather, I like to work from my computer and then only every once in…

  • Start The Philosophical Hack with The Second Part: The Object of the Subject

    THE OBJECT of the SUBJECT: The Second Part. EPUB version available now. — if everything went good. “The Philosophical Hack uses Slavoj Zizek’s book ‘Event’ as a platform from which to hack into philosophy. A hack is someone who is adept in technology and standard methods but is not employed to make marketed products. Yet…

  • Stiegler’s Faux-pas?

    I have been chipping away very slowly at Stiegler’s Negathropocene. And here is a paragraph from the end of Part 2 in the book that I thought encompasses, what we might call, a faux pas in reckoning.  Similar to Lacan’s mistake , i’m calling this author’s mistake a faux pas because it seems to…

  • The Object of the Subject is available to you now.

    THE OBJECT of the SUBJECT: The Second Part. EPUB version available now. — if everything went good. “The Philosophical Hack uses Slavoj Zizek’s book ‘Event’ as a platform from which to hack into philosophy. A hack is someone who is adept in technology and standard methods but is not employed to make marketed products. Yet…

  • First, Things First.

    Here is a link to The First Part of the Philosophical Hack: The Concluding Unscientific Post-Script to Event The Second Part, called The Object of the Subject, will be out promptly. (Or as promptly as the new proof copy comes.)